At a press conference in London on Monday to promote her new movie, Changeling, about a mother whose son is abducted, Angelina Jolie talked about her own mom, the late Marcheline Bertrand, and became overcome with emotion.

Unable to truly tap into the essence of the real-life character of Christine Collins, whose son disappeared in 1920s Los Angeles, Angelina says she thought of her late mother in order to connect with the character. But when she began to reflect on Marcheline, she started crying:

Everybody called her marshmallow as a joke, because she was just the softest, most gentle woman in the world,”

said Angelina and moved to tears.

She is very much Christine Collins. She was really sweet and would never get angry; she couldn’t swear to save her life. But when it came to her kids, she was really, really fierce, and so this is very much her, and her story, in that she was the woman I relate to, who had that elegance and strength through just knowing what was right.”

Angelina’s mother died of ovarian cancer in January of last year.

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